House File 77 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  TJEPKES


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing an excess weight allowance for vehicles hauling
  2    dried distillers grains.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1834YH 83
  5 dea/nh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.466, subsection 5, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  It shall be unlawful for any person to A person shall
  1  4 not operate a motor truck, trailer, truck tractor, road
  1  5 tractor, semitrailer, or combination thereof, or any such
  1  6 vehicle equipped with a transferable auxiliary axle or axles,
  1  7 on the public highways with a gross weight exceeding that the
  1  8 gross weight for which it is registered by more than five
  1  9 percent of the gross weight for which it is registered,;
  1 10 provided, however, that any vehicle or vehicle combination
  1 11 referred to herein in this subsection, while carrying a load
  1 12 of raw farm products, soil fertilizers, including ground
  1 13 limestone, raw dairy products, or livestock, live poultry,
  1 14 eggs, or dried distillers grains may be operated with a gross
  1 15 weight of twenty=five percent in excess of the gross weight
  1 16 for which it is registered.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill allows a vehicle or combination of vehicles
  1 19 carrying a load of dried distillers grains to be operated with
  1 20 a gross weight of 25 percent in excess of the registered gross
  1 21 weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles.  Dried
  1 22 distillers grains, the product remaining after ethanol is
  1 23 extracted from corn mash, is used as an ingredient in
  1 24 livestock feed.  Currently, the excess weight allowance
  1 25 applies to vehicles transporting raw farm products, soil
  1 26 fertilizers, livestock, or live poultry.
  1 27 LSB 1834YH 83
  1 28 dea/nh/8